From:	chimerae@***.ie chimerae@***.ie
Subject:	A perfectly acceptable reason to test the new list...
Date:	Tue, 9 Feb 1999 22:33:54 +0000

Something everyone overlooked is the crippling high mortality rate
for mages in either security or shadowrunning.
Geek the mage might not be as easy as it used to be with three
actions before he spell tosser could even blink, but they're still a
prime target (at least in every game I ever played in).

I can understand a combat mage installing a few pieces of cyber just
to increase his survival chances or to even the odds a bit. I
can't remember many references on how the loss of magic is from a
first person perspective, but it might be very different from the dry
change in stats. Along the lines of :
"So casting a very powerful manaball makes my ears bleed, big deal.
I'm so fast I can pull the wings out of a bee in flight. Next time
those sammies have to eat spells before they shoot me!"


Martin Steffens
chimerae@***.ie